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It’s still Friday in the USA. 👊🏼

Quick Updates and Housekeeping!

This week, we released a free trial of Advanced Coffee Making Course. You can enroll here to get Chapter 2: Extraction, take the quiz at the end, and walk away with a downloadable cheat sheet on some very useful Coffee Algebra. Get in on this now, peeps!

As far as BH Tools go, manufacturing and shipping are on hold due to the Chinese New Year until February 23. Cupping bowls and black tampers are on back order — pending orders will be shipped starting on February 24.

By late March, Precision Milk Pitchers will be back in stock. We do have several resellers you can hit up for pitchers, too:

Replace ‘STEM’ with ‘the coffee industry’ and we should be reminded that diversity needs to go hand in hand with a culture of inclusion. To paraphrase DeRay McKesson: diversity is about bodies, inclusion is about culture. We can have 100 non-male competitors but still have only male WBC winners.

What is the profit and loss of a coffee farm? Who better to ask than a farmer with an MBA and a B.S. from the Universidad Fidelitas in Costa Rica. Alejandro Martinez from Finca Argentina in El Salvador talks business at TT San Francisco. What makes this talk particularly poignant is that it comes the same year El Salvador’s workers achieved a landmark victory in doubling minimum wage. Alejandro talks candidly about what this has meant to his bottom line.

Next month we head to Brazil with a funky (in a good way) “Beaujolais Methode” processed yellow bourbon, roasted by Cafe Lomi in Paris. This is another bean that’s been processed in a super cool way, and we’re so excited to share with y’all!